Correspondence with Beattie, James

• Archive Work ID: letters.beattie_james
• Correspondent: Beattie, James
• Language: English
• Date Range: 1765-1771
• Summary: 14 letters (9 from Gray, 5 to Gray), dated between 1765 and 1771.

10 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: letters.0465 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: 8 September 1765
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/1, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 411, vol. ii, 886; Memoirs (1775), letter xlix, section iv, 308-309; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXVI, vol. iii, 81-82; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXXI, vol. ii, 457; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXXXII, vol. iv, 62; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXXIII, vol. ii, 86-87; Works (1814), section IV, letter XLIX, vol. i, 410
  • Contents: Incipit: "A little journey I have been making to Arbroth has been the cause,". Sent from Glamis Castle. to [Aberdeen]. Dateline: "8 Sept: 1765". Address: "Glames-Castle". Envelope (front): "To Mr Beattie, Professor, in Marischal College Aberdeen" Postmark: "DUNDEE".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0467 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: 2 October 1765
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/2, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 413, vol. ii, 895-896; Memoirs (1775), letter li, section iv, 318-320; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCLXXVIII, vol. iii, 93-95; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXXII, vol. ii, 458-459; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXXXIII, vol. iv, 63-65; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXXV, vol. ii, 96-98; Works (1814), section IV, letter LI, vol. i, 418-420
  • Contents: Incipit: "I must beg you would present my most grateful acknowledgements to your learned". Sent from Glamis Castle. to [Aberdeen]. Dateline: "Oct: 2. 1765". Address: "Glames-Castle". Envelope (front): "To Mr Beattie, Professor in the Marischal-College Aberdeen" Postmark: "DUNDEE".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0508 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: 12 August 1767
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/3, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 452, vol. iii, 974-975; Memoirs (1775), letter lv, section iv, 325-327; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 282-283; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCX, vol. iii, 156-157; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXXX, vol. ii, 479-481; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXLI, vol. iv, 87-89; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXXXI, vol. ii, 108-110; Works (1814), section IV, letter LV, vol. i, 424-426
  • Contents: Incipit: "I received from M^r Williamson that very obliging mark you were pleased". Sent from Durham. to [Aberdeen]. Dateline: "12 Aug: 1767". Address: "Old-Park, near Darlington, Durham". Envelope (front): "To Mr Professor Beattie of the Marischal College Aberdeen" Postmark: "DUNDEE".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0513 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: 24 December 1767
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/4, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 457, vol. iii, 982-984; Memoirs (1775), letter lvi, section iv, 327-329; Essays and Criticisms by Thomas Gray (1911), letter excerpt, 284; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXIV, vol. iii, 161-163; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXXXI, vol. ii, 481-483; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXLII, vol. iv, 90-92; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXXXII, vol. ii, 110-112; Works (1814), section IV, letter LVI, vol. i, 426-428
  • Contents: Incipit: "Since I had the pleasure of receiving your last letter, w^ch did not reach". Sent from Cambridge. to [Aberdeen]. Dateline: "Dec: 24. 1767". Address: "Pembroke Hall Cambridge". Envelope (front): "To Mr Professor Beattie in the University of Aberdeen by Caxton-Bay" Postmark: "CAMBRIDGE".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0522 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: 1 February 1768
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/5, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: covering letter only (a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford), the instructions for printing are at Princeton University Library, Robert H. Taylor Collection, section I. Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol. 52
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 466, vol. iii, 1001-1004; Memoirs (1775), letter lvii, section iv, 329-330; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXX, vol. iii, 175-177; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXXXIV, vol. ii, 490-491; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CXLVI, vol. iv, 101-103; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXXXIV, vol. ii, 114-116; Works (1814), section IV, letter LVII, vol. i, 428-429
  • Contents: Incipit: "I am almost sorry to have raised any degree of impatience in you,". Sent from Cambridge. Dateline: "Feb: 1. 1768". Address: "Pembroke-Hall". Envelope (front): "To Mr Beattie".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0525 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Beattie, James to Gray, Thomas
  • Date: 16 February 1768
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/7/2, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 469, vol. iii, 1010-1012
  • Contents: Incipit: "I received Your most agreable packet a week ago, and have carefully". Sent from Aberdeen. to [Cambridge]. Dateline: "16 February 1768". dateline in the closer. Address: "Aberdeen". address in the closer. Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esquire / Pembroke Hall / Cambridge" Postmark: "FE 19 DUNDEE".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0544 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: 31 October 1768
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/6, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 487, vol. iii, 1048-1049; Memoirs (1775), letter lx, section iv, 333-334; Letters (1900-12), letter no. CCCXXXVII, vol. iii, 211; Works (1816), section IV, letter CXLI, vol. ii, 506-507; Works (1835-1843), section IV, letter CLVI, vol. iv, 126-127; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXL, vol. ii, 128-129; Works (1814), section IV, letter LX, vol. i, 432-433
  • Contents: Incipit: "It is some time, since I received from M^r Foulis two copies of my poems,". Sent from Cambridge. to [Aberdeen]. Dateline: "31 Oct: 1768". Address: "Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge". Envelope (front): "To Mr Professor Beattie, of the Marischal College Aberdeen" Postmark: "CAMBRIDGE".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0560 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Gray, Thomas to Beattie, James
  • Date: [16 July 1769]
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/6/7, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 501, vol. iii, 1070-1072; Memoirs (1775), letter iii, section v, 348-350; Letters (1900-12), fragment, letter no. CCCXLVIII, vol. iii, 228-230; Works (1816), section V, letter IV, vol. ii, 516-517; Works (1835-1843), section V, letter V, vol. iv, 137-138; Letters of Thomas Gray, 2 vols. (1819), letter CXLIII, vol. ii, 134-135; Works (1814), section V, letter III, vol. i, 445-446
  • Contents: Incipit: "I have been so unfortunate as to lose the pleasure of seeing your two Friends". Sent from [Cambridge].
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0567 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Beattie, James to Gray, Thomas
  • Date: [6 December 1769]
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/7/1, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 507*, vol. iii, 1082-1084
  • Contents: Incipit: "For these three or four months past I have been in a state of dissipation". Sent from [Aberdeen].
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: letters.0600 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Beattie, James to Gray, Thomas
  • Date: 1 May 1770
  • Language: English
  • Location: AU MS 30/24/7/3, Historic Collections, Special Libraries and Archives, King's College, AU MS 30, Papers of James Beattie (1735-1803), University of Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, UK <https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/>
  • Alternate Form: a photostat is in MS. Toynbee d.32, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • References: Correspondence (1971), letter no. 522, vol. iii, 1130-1132
  • Contents: Incipit: "I troubled You with a letter some months ago, enclosing a specimen". Sent from Aberdeen. to Cambridge. Dateline: "1^st May 1770". dateline in the closer. Address: "Aberdeen". address in the closer. Envelope (front): "To Thomas Gray Esquire Regius Professor of Modern History Cambridge with a Book---To be forwarded by Mr Dilly".
  • Surrogates: Letter record at the Thomas Gray Archive available online.